Crossword-Solution: BOOKISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bookish | a. | Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. |
| Bookish | a. | Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BOOKISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Devoted to reading | 1 answer |
| Fond of reading | 1 answer |
| Devoted to reading and studying | 2 answers |
| Literary ___ | 6 answers |
| A QUIET STUDIOUS CHILD | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY DILIGENT STUDY AND FONDNESS FOR READING | 11 answers |
| studious | 12 answers |
| Pedantic | 19 answers |
| Highbrow | 27 answers |
| Educated | 44 answers |
| Erudite | 51 answers |
| scholastic | 52 answers |
| Learned | 57 answers |
| Scholarly | 61 answers |
| ACADEMIC ___ | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOOKISH (5)
Thea frowned again, still more fiercely, and said quickly, “That’s a nice name, only maybe it’s a little—old fashioned.” She was very sensitive about being thought a foreigner, and was proud of the fact that, in town, her father always preached in English; very bookish English, at that, one might add.
Once a month a number of booksellers gather here and we discuss matters of bookish concern over corn-cobs and cider.
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
With his bursts of door-slamming activity, his fits of bookish indolence, his crude revolutionary dogmatizing and his flashes of precocious irony, the boy was not unlike a boisterous embodiment of his father’s theories.
Perhaps, even, he had ventured inside, and deferentially picked acquaintance with the Thorpe of the period, and got bookish advice and friendly counsel for nothing.
Quotes with BOOKISH (3)
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watc…
Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1995–2016).